CIRCUIT SWITCHED TRAFFIC Sample Clauses

CIRCUIT SWITCHED TRAFFIC. 17.1 For purposes of this Agreement only, Circuit-Switched Traffic is defined as any traffic that terminates on a Party’s circuit switch including, without limitation, traffic routed or transported in whole or in part using Internet Protocol. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, excluding traffic from exchanges sharing a common mandatory local calling area as defined in SBC’s tariffs, all other Circuit- Switched Traffic, as defined above, that originates from an end user physically located in one local exchange and delivered for termination to an end user physically located in a different local exchange (“Interexchange Circuit-Switched Traffic”) shall be delivered to the terminating Party over feature group access trunks per the terminating Party’s access tariff(s) and shall be subject to applicable intrastate and interstate switched access charges; provided, however, the following categories of Interexchange Circuit- Switched Traffic are not subject to the above stated requirement relating to routing over feature group access trunks: (i) IntraLATA toll Traffic or Optional EAS Traffic from a CLEC end user that obtains local dial tone from CLEC where CLEC is both the Section 251(b)(5) Traffic provider and the intraLATA toll provider, (ii) IntraLATA toll Traffic or Optional EAS Traffic from an SBC end user that obtains local dial tone from SBC where SBC is both the Section 251(b)(5) Traffic provider and the intraLATA toll provider; (iii) Interexchange Circuit Switched Traffic delivered to SBC from an Interexchange Carrier (IXC) where the terminating number is ported to another CLEC and the IXC fails to perform the Local Number Portability (LNP) query; and/or (iv) Interexchange Circuit Switched Traffic delivered to either Party from a third party competitive local exchange carrier over interconnection trunk groups carrying Section 251(b)